I guess because of the difficulty distinguishing found feathers from feathers
from birds killed for that purpose, all possession must be considered illegal,
otherwise they could never get any convictions.
I've been intending to photograph the feathers of the next dead bird I find,
but haven't found any yet. Does anyone know if there are any legal problems
with posessing photos of them, especially when the photo obviously shows
they're still on the dead bird?
I'll take this opportunity to post again this link to the U.S. National Fish
and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory's Feather Atlas Website:
http://www.lab.fws.gov/featheratlas
I wish we had something like that. I asked about a year ago if anyone was
interested in a local version, but only got one response.
Peter Shute
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From: On
Behalf Of Michelle Robinson
Sent: Saturday, 31 October 2009 4:00 AM
Cc:
Subject: Request for feathers
Most birds are protected in the United States as well, and it is illegal
to possess any part of one, including feathers, unless you have a permit
from the government. (There are exceptions for introduced species and
birds who have hunting seasons.)
Michelle Robinson
Los Angeles, CA
wrote:
> Hi all
>
> SPAM or not. To me it is only a request for feathers - people worldwide
> collect all sorts of stuff and feathers are for sure one of those.
> Considering his age and that he obviously have been told about aussie
> feather rules I can admit it is a bit weird to send such a request again.
> But remember it is only(?) in Australia that it is illegal to collect
> feathers, even naturally moulted ones. Thats weird to me..........
>
> Regards
> Katarina
> 64ºN and snow in the air
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